Sharing is Caring
by michaelbeacom · Social
Displays the social widgets from Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and Pinterest with your posts. Also adds some meta tags for opengraph and schema.org.
41 health vs 55 average across 797 Social plugins
High removal-risk signals
63/100Maintenance and integrity signals that tend to precede a WordPress.org removal. Not an official status, a heads-up to act.
- Long abandoned. No update in 14+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 3.3.2, well behind 6.8.
Directory ranking optimization
How it's scored →How well this listing is tuned to rank in WordPress.org search, on the factors an owner controls. Not popularity, optimization.
Under-optimized
Biggest win: Update recency
To rank higher: Last updated 5243 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.
Get the full rank-higher report →Daily downloads
Since 2022-10-05 · 1,381 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges
55
now · peak 143
Directory rank vs rivals
wp.org popularity rank over time · higher is better · when a rival's line climbs above yours, they've overtaken you
Downloads per 1k installs · 30d
Engagement proxy · release spikes are signal, a long slide is an aging base
Estimated active installs
wp.org reports only “60+”. The real number sits in this band.
Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.
Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,378 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-band crossings we have observed, and how long each band took to outgrow
- 2026-03-20 70+ → 60+ down after 82 days in band
- 2025-12-28 80+ → 70+ down after 155 days in band
- 2025-07-26 90+ → 80+ down after 237 days in band
- 2024-12-01 100+ → 90+ down
Competes with
The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach — closest match first
- J Jamie Social Icons 200+ installs · 4.1★ · 3 shared tags D
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Social Media Social Share Icon 100+ installs · 3.9★ · 3 shared tags D -
Social Feeds 70+ installs · 4.3★ · 3 shared tags D - S Social Share Buttons 50+ installs · 3.8★ · 3 shared tags D
- M MP Share Center 50+ installs · 4.0★ · 3 shared tags D
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Nextend Social Login and Register 200K+ installs · 4.9★ · 2 shared tags A
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